Phone Hacking

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London's Metropolitan Police this week dropped their attempt to leverage the Official Secrets Act to force The Guardian to reveal confidential
sources for stories about the phone-hacking scandal that has gripped the UK's
political and media world. The Met's reversal is welcome, but its unprecedented
attempt to invoke espionage laws to force a newspaper to reveal confidential sources
has itself set a damaging precedent, suggesting that journalists are state enemies
for obtaining sensitive information from government officials.